Pripyat 2011: Soviet dream turned nuclear nightmare

Twenty-five years ago the town of Pripyat was a place any Soviet person could dream of: high salaries, great standards of living and impressive infrastructure -- a restricted town for the employees of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. All of that changed on April 26 when the Chernobyl reactor exploded -- the result of an experiment carried out in the wrong hands. RT on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RTnews RT on Twitter: http://twitter.com/RT_com